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<div class="WPC-editableContent" id="WPC-area?cellId=Fox+Lab&amp;version=135&amp;savePath=%2Fpage%2FFox%2BLab&amp;saveType=page"><font size="3"><font color="#ffa500"><i>Logo descriptions by</i></font><font color="#333333"><i> mr3urious and D.L. Chandell<br/></i></font><font color="#333333"><i><font color="#ffa500">Logo captures by</font> V of Doom<br/></i></font><font color="#333333"><i><font color="#ffa500">Editions by</font> mr3urious, AsdfTheRevival, UniqueMonster,TLogos and Mario9000seven<br/><font color="#ffa500">Video capture courtesy of</font> Joe500000, Pepsi9072 and DaSpartanRemixer Alt</i></font><font color="#333333"><font face="Arial"><br/><br/><br/><u>Background</u>: Fox Lab was a low-profile p</font></font><font color="#333333" face="Arial">roduction sub-division of</font><font color="#333333"> the [[Fox Broadcasting Company]], originally following in the footsteps of [[Fox Television Stations Productions]]. </font><font color="#333333">FTSP shut down Fox Lab in 2003.<br/><br/><br/></font><font color="#333333">1st Logo<br/>(1992-1995)</font></font><br/><div><div align="center"><font size="1">[[File:4fc734a195594b2a770921cf0a412fd0.png|280px|Fox Lab (1995)]]<br/></font></div><div align="center"><font size="1"><iframe height="210" src="http://wikifoundrytools.com/wiki/closinglogos/widget/genericvideo/23291c3c2bded8a282e7b7d973b422400a25478a" width="281"></iframe><iframe height="210" src="http://wikifoundrytools.com/wiki/closinglogos/widget/genericvideo/afa35fcc56dc36bc73b49c94c75f9d87c36c00c5" width="280"></iframe></font></div></div><div><font size="3"><u><br/></u></font></div><font size="3"><u>Nickname</u>: "The Swirling Smoke"<br/><br/><font color="#333333"><font color="#333333"><u>Logo</u>: A spread-out, lowercase, metallic-colored word "</font><font color="#808080"><b>f o x l a b</b></font><font color="#333333">"  sits still and fixed over a dark background, while thick </font></font><font color="#333333"><font color="#333333">trailing  slivers of "smoke" swirl from behind the letters.<br/><br/><u>Variant</u>: Sometimes only the first half of the logo plays.<br/><br/></font></font><font color="#333333"><u>FX/SFX</u>: The swirling trail of smoke.<br/><br/></font><font color="#333333"><font face="Arial"><u>Music/Sounds</u></font></font><font color="#333333">:</font><font color="#333333">  None, or the closing theme of the show. It's said that there's a  version with a one-note synth theme, but it hasn't been confirmed.<br/><br/></font><font color="#333333"><u>Availability</u>: Extinct. The full version appears on <i>America's Most Wanted: Final Justice</i>. The variant was found on an early episode of the extremely short-lived series <i>What's So Funny?</i>.<br/><br/></font><u>Editor's Note</u><font>: None.</font><font color="#333333"><br/><br/><br/><br/></font><font color="#333333">2nd Logo<br/></font><font color="#333333">(1995-August 24, 2003)<br/></font></font><div align="center"><font color="#333333" size="1">[[File:WgmK5x7-lzLF5kqODbIjBQ103468.jpeg|230px|Fox Lab (1994)]][[File:60WN8Q5IqqhJfv9FWJjYeg86870.jpeg|230px|Fox Lab (2003)]]</font><font size="1"><br/><iframe height="151" src="http://wikifoundrytools.com/wiki/closinglogos/widget/genericvideo/97007324c66eb771946ceb96f144d335b9e05b15" width="266"></iframe><iframe height="151" src="http://wikifoundrytools.com/wiki/closinglogos/widget/genericvideo/505ee0d9651fb0056b73d835c1cab45b5d2c818f" width="266"></iframe><iframe height="153" src="http://wikifoundrytools.com/wiki/closinglogos/widget/genericvideo/863df989405832f9efa9f42860e60c332f496e96" width="201"></iframe></font></div><font size="3"><font color="#333333"><br/><u>Nicknames</u>: "The Lab", "Turning CGI Searchlights", </font><font color="#333333">"FrankenFox", </font><font color="#333333">"The Electric Beam Tower"<br/><br/></font><font color="#333333"><font color="#333333"><u>Logo</u>: A grayish green-colored tower structure pans down from above on a black background, revealing the words:<br/><br/></font></font></font><div align="center"><font color="#ffa500" size="6"><b><u>FOX</u></b></font><font size="6"><br/><font color="#ffa500"><b>LAB</b></font></font></div><font size="3"><font color="#333333"><font color="#333333"><br/>written    in  the usual "Fox" font, with two static beams standing at the edges   of   the "L" and the "B" emitting sparks of electricity from side to   side,   then the structure rapidly zooms-out in its proper slanted "20th   Century   Fox" format position. The tower is now in gold, surrounded  by  a dark   blue stormy sky, with thick, bellowing, fast-moving mixture  of    cumulonimbus and nimbostratus clouds, (similar to the </font><font color="#333333">[[Fox Television Studios]]     logo, only the cloud movement is faster and the clouds thicker and    more  defined). A jolt of electricity moves up the tower, similar to    that of a  "Jacob's Ladder".<br/><br/></font></font><font color="#333333"><font color="#333333"><u>Trivia</u>: The logo was produced and directed at Flip Your Lid Animation. More info <a class="external" href="http://www.animationmagazine.net/vfx/flip-your-lids-wraps-foxlab-project/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.<br/><br/></font></font><font color="#333333"><font color="#333333"><u>Later Variant</u>:</font></font><font color="#333333"> On <i>Classmates</i>, the logo begins from the zoom out, and t</font><font color="#333333"><font color="#333333">he byline "</font><font color="#ffa500"><b><font face="Times">A NEWS  CORPORATION COMPANY</font></b></font><font color="#333333">" fades in underneath.<br/><br/></font></font><font color="#333333"><u>FX/SFX</u>: The zoom-out and electricity effect, which are done with nice CGI graphics.</font><font color="#333333"><br/><br/></font><font color="#333333"><font face="Arial"><u>Music/Sounds</u></font></font><font color="#333333">:    A dramatic choir-like sound with sparking electricity. On some shows,    the closing theme will play over it. Otherwise, it's silent.<br/><br/></font><font color="#333333"><u>Availability</u>:  Extinct. It appeared on later episodes of <i>What's So Funny?</i> and the variant on the short-lived 2003 syndicated series <i>Classmates</i>, among other shows.<br/><br/></font><u>Editor's Note</u><font>: None.</font></font></div>